I'm trying the WiseGuy sample app in Java and can get Alexa to say "knock knock" but then the light turns off and that's it, I don't get to say "who's there".
Same issue with my own skill, even though I'm using newAskResponse(). Is there anything else I need to do?
Thanks!
Etienne
Fixed it by using the jar file produced by Maven instead of directly using the source code. Not sure why that makes a difference.
When you face issues like this, don't forget, you can use the skill configuration "Test" tab, to test the skill, to make sure it's not an interpretation problem (which can happen often).
Also, if doing that still gives you a response that you are not expecting you can copy that intent request:
And that past it on your lambda function event Test, there you will be able to see a more detail "debug" and if you are still not sure, make sure you do a few prints to at least pin point where the issue is:)
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I'm having a hard time understanding how to even search online for this behavior. I've seen it several times before and know it's something that can be done but don't know if this is a language level feature or what. What do you call the ability for code that you edited to automatically be applied to an executed instance of said code being run.
To use a common version of this that I see: you'll have a game that you're developing open and you'll be running that game in your engine and then edit a value (let's say one representing walking speed) and then simply save that file (maybe compile it? maybe just that line? I don't know how it's done) and then, suddenly, that behavior is updated in the live instance of the program just like that.
It seems so much better then having to recompile a file, or a whole project, and then run it to be able to test it. How do I do this kind of rapid iteration and what is it called? NOTE: the first time I saw this was with Clojure in emacs. Does that have something to do with it?
You may want to read about the Clojure REPL and also here.
"Hot Reloading" is related and is commonly used in UI development in the browser with ClojureScript:
Shadow CLJS
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I'm planning on doing an experiment, where we will setup a Google Assistant or Alexa device and see how people would interact with voice assistants in a certain environment. It's basically a Wizard of Oz experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment). Is it possible to intercept the voice commands before they get passed to the Assistant or Alexa? This could help me decide/manage if I want to handle the user input or let Google/Alexa handle it.
Will you be using a purchased "original" device or will you use, e.g. an Raspberry PI and build it yourself?
For the former this won't be possible out of the bow. However, I recently stumbled upon an article. It describes a new device which would achieve something that might help you: It allows you to "reprogram" the activation word for Alexa and Google Assistant. The article mentions that the device's hardware is a Raspberry PI. So, I guess you could build something similar yourself. That was also the first idea that came into my mind.
I would imagine something like this:
On your raspberry you have a script (I guess written in python would be easiest) that listens for the wake-word, e.g. "Alexa" and also records the following voice. However, you have Alexa itself not running for now, so it doesn't get triggered. Your script also includes a logic for when to pass the command on to Alexa or what to do with it instead. When it decides that the command is to be passed on, the script starts Alexa and replays the recording. Thus, triggering it the same way the users would have triggered it, in the first place.
Another idea would be to use two microphones. One for your script and one for Alexa. Your script having the ability to mute/unmute those.
Pleas take into account that those are just spontaneous ideas. It's completely possible that I've missed something and this wouldn't work. But until somebody who has done this before comes up, I'd give it a try!
I'm in my baby-steps in Alexa Skills development and I'm stuck in the testing part. It seems that the simulator just hangs. The bubbles wont go away and I dont get any some sort of a response. I made sure that the skill is configured using EN-US and that the Lambda function is hosted on US-East (N.Virgina). Not entirely sure what to do from here.
It took me 2 days to locate the issue. As it turns out ADGuard is doing more than it's suppose to do. I had it completely disabled yet the Simulator did not want to work. Only after killing it's process entirely did the Simulator finally start to work.
For me, I had stop fiddler running and it started working,
This was the error I was getting,
HTTP/1.0 200 This buggy server did not return headers
I know people have asked this before, but i see no answer nor people even commenting about it.
So, i'm trying to make SHOUTcast streaming in WP7, anyone have done it? I know i have to use MediaStreamSource with my MediaElement, but how exactly can i skip that header from SHOUTcast and just get the stream and use it in a MediaStreamSource? Is there any app that has done it? Someone actually has some example working code?
There is a really good SHOUTcast Player called streamything (http://www.streamything.com/page/en/default.html) . Unfortunately it is not open source nor freeware but i shows that it is definitely a way to do that.
You need to setup a mechanism to get the stream of data to be passed to the application continuously. Here is a possible implementation. In order to be able to receive the stream directly (so that the application won't be treated as a web browser), you have to call the URL with a semicolon at the end. For example: http://00.00.00.00:8000/;
I have some C code that parses a file and generates another file of processed data. I now need to post these files to a website on a web server. I guess there is a way to do a HTTP POST but I have never done this in c (using GCC on Ubuntu). Does anyone know how to do this? I need a starting point as I have no clue of doing this in C. I also need to be able to authenticate with the website.
libcurl is probably a good place to start.
I think Hank Gay's suggestion of using a library to handle the details is the best one, but if you want to "do it yourself", you need to open a socket to the web server and then send your data in the HTTP POST format which is described here. Authentication can mean a variety of different things, so you need to be more specific.
Unfortunately, all of the above three jobs involve a fair bit of complexity, so you need to break the question down into stages and come back and ask about each bit separately.